Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters -- some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend -- to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress.

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

This should not be a surprise to us as that the promise to plunder the productive in order to buy the votes of the lazy has historically been an effective means by which a power-tripping narcissist may gain power. It certainly worked for Hitler.

This of course has the unpleasant and morally intolerable consequence of reducing the productive members of a society to the status of chattel. The fact that the left in general is not the slighted bit bothered by their subhumanization of the productive gives us a clear indication of their actual moral status.

Contrary to the whinings and ravings of its adherents, socialism has always required the compulsary expropriation of, taking by force, the product of thought and labor. Which is to say that socialism is in actual practice a form of slavery.

A retired Special Forces NCO who had become a polemicist once told me that we had to dehumanize our enemies in our writings. I had to disagree.

"Steve," I said, "our opponents have already dehumanized themselves, our job is to accurately describe what we see."

What I see is that those who publically advocate and seek to impose socialism on a human society are morally indistinguishable from those who capture, sell, and use humans as slaves. Which is to say that socialists are for all practical purposes inhuman vermin fit solely for extermination.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out the "F word" at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in a terse discussion between the two that touched on politics, religion and money, with Cheney finally telling Leahy to "f--- off" or "go f--- yourself," the aides said.

It's about fucking time that someone in the fucking administration showed some fucking spine to those fucking motherfuckers.

When I spent two weeks working in a Republican Party fundraising call center the use of what our boss called the "effenheimer" was grounds for termination from employment and we had to exercise call in the language we used in general. One day I tacked up in my cubicle the following verse:

Yea though I travel in the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil, for I'm the kind of person whose character and conduct may not be discussed in the call center.

Of course after two weeks of listening to a bunch of "family farmers" and elderly whine on and on about how they were entitled to a piece of the taxpayers money I was ready to start dropping some F-bombs myself.

A former Department of Children & Families worker was arrested on charges that she conned elderly and low-income clients into paying her for services that were supposed to be free.

Maria del Carmen Garcia, 44, took hundreds of dollars from at least five victims, police said. In most cases, she promised to help the victims get into a rental-assistance program for the poor, if they paid her $250.

Garcia faces six counts of unlawful compensation for official behavior and one count of organized fraud. She was being held Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on $125,000 bail.

WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea told the United States on Thursday that it would test a nuclear weapon unless Washington accepted Pyongyang's proposal for a freeze on its atomic program, a senior administration official said.

It is not clear to them that they will ultimately lose, and drag a great numbers of muslims with them to their obliteration. Part of the parcel to defeat Islam would be to Carthagenize any of their major sites (and minor ones in the follow up). It will be bloody decade or so, with a lot of victims in either camp when number of muslims would be larger in order of magnitude, but after all is done, the Islam would be a footnote in history books (or files)

Of course my personal view is that anyone, socialist or theocrat, who seeks to subjugate us are simply vermin fit solely for extermination.

The Commission believes that commercialization of space should become the primary focus of the vision, and that the creation of a space-based industry will be one of the principal benefits of this journey.

Well, duhhhh...

A permanent human presence in space would have to be economically self-sustaining.

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

No person in his right mind, Left or Right, wants war, particularly a nuclear war. The only difference between Leftists and Rightists over the issue was the means adopted to avoid war. Conservatives had the guts to believe that there was some alternative to surrendering to tyranny and undertook the arduous task of deterring war through strength -- which in the end brought about the marvellous achievement for all humanity of both destroying the threat of nuclear war and destroying the world's most threatening tyranny as well. The only idea that Leftists had in the matter was surrender -- or "unilateral disarmament", as they called it. They probably rather fancied themselves as Soviet Commissars in a Communist State anyway.

Friday, June 11, 2004

People know we're not getting the leadership we need to defeat terrorism the way we defeated Communism. We're not likely to ever get it from the current President and we will absolutely never get it from his pacifistic, appeasing opponent. People sense, but cannot articulate, that something is missing. Brute force alone will not do it, but neither will pacifism. What's missing is moral conviction. President Reagan reminds us that such a thing is possible, though not visible in our current leaders.

The yearning for Reagan is more than mere nostalgia. It's the craving for a justice not yet realized in our current struggle. We need a leader who will attack our enemy first and foremost on moral and ideological grounds. The rest will surely follow.

"Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender."

Vice President Dan Quayle told Greta Van Susternen on Fox News that he was President Nixon's driver during the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. According to Quayle if Nixon had not won the nomination on the first ballot Ronald Reagan could have won the nomination on the second ballot.

Perhaps too busy still mourning the loss of his business partner Saddam Hussein, chief French quisling Jacques Chirac is not only refusing to attend former President Ronald Reagan's funeral on Friday, his government doesn't even list a representative who will attend.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are the only G-8 leaders who have confirmed plans to attend. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected as well, along with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles.

Monday, June 07, 2004

"'Speaking purely from the experience of my country, barely two years after the announcement of halting of the bombing in Indochina by U.S. forces, Cambodia, South Vietnam, and Laos collapsed. So I am against those who call for the United States to [set] a time-table for U.S. forces and its allies to withdraw from Iraq.'"

Twenty years ago, when I was writing a novel about power struggles in a fictionalized Pakistan, it was already de rigueur in the Muslim world to blame all its troubles on the West and, in particular, the United States. Then as now, some of these criticisms were well-founded; no room here to rehearse the geopolitics of the cold war and America's frequently damaging foreign policy "tilts," to use the Kissinger term, toward (or away from) this or that temporarily useful (or disapproved-of) nation-state, or America's role in the installation and deposition of sundry unsavory leaders and regimes. But I wanted then to ask a question that is no less important now: Suppose we say that the ills of our societies are not primarily America's fault, that we are to blame for our own failings? How would we understand them then? Might we not, by accepting our own responsibility for our problems, begin to learn to solve them for ourselves?

Friday, June 04, 2004

There are also people who say "better Red than dead," people who would rather face the possibility of slavery - for ourselves or others -- than the certainty of a fight, with all its attendant blood and misery.

I'm sorry to say it, but to me that is nothing but sheer cowardice and refined selfishness.

We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of "no war at any cost" are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

It would be nice if there were a way around this. History, not merely my opinion, shows us that there is not. If all you are willing to do is think happy thoughts, then those are the consequences. If you want justice, and freedom, and safety, and prosperity, then sometimes you have to fight for them.

More than a year before 9/11, a Pakistani-British man told the FBI an incredible tale: that he had been trained by bin Laden’s followers to hijack airplanes and was now in America to carry out an attack. The FBI questioned him for weeks, but then let him go home, and never followed up. . . .

NBC News has learned that Khan passed not one but two FBI polygraphs. A former FBI official says Newark agents believed Khan and tried to aggressively follow every lead in the case, but word came from headquarters saying, “return him to London and forget about it” -- which, critics say, is exactly what the FBI did.

Marek Edelman is the last surviving military leader of the heroic Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. He recently spoke to a Polish television channel TVN24, and the interview has been re-published in a Polish weekly "Przekroj". It's not available anywhere else in English (or for that matter electronically), so I take this opportunity to translate and publish extensive excerpts from the interview. Edelman experienced evil many times in his long and distinguished life; he has also faced it and fought it bravely. What he has to say bears listening to.

Interviewer: Many people do understand that, but they don't understand why the Americans have to go to the other side of the world and fight over Iraq now.

Edelman: And why did they go to Europe then? Who defeated Hitler and saved Europe from fascism? The French? No, the Americans did. We thanked them then because they saved us. Today we criticise them because they're saving somebody else.

Interviewer: Returning to the question about having Polish soldier on the ground in Iraq. Many Poles don't want them there.

Edelman: If they don't want them there, let's just keep waiting and then let's see from which direction the rockets and the bombs will come from - will we in the end be lorded over by Saddam's viceroys or Bin Laden's, just as we were once lorded over by Hitler's viceroys.

Interviewer: Do you really believe in such a scenario?

Edelman: It's possible. If we will keep closing our eyes to evil, then that evil will defeat us tomorrow. Unfortunately there's more hatred in men than love. Those who murder understand only force and nothing else. And the only force that is able to stand against them is the American democracy.